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HAIR GRIMPING DEVICE.

No. 404,087. Patented May 28, 1889.

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NICOLAS HELMER AND CHARLES LOUIS LIETZ, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

HAIR-CRIMPING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,087, dated May 28, 1889.

Application filed January 9, 1889. Serial No. 295,824. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known t-hatwe, NICOLAS HELMER and CHARLES LOUIS LIETZ, citizens of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair-Crimping Devices, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

Our invention consists of a hair-crimping device, it being particularly adapted for use by hair-dressers and manufacturers of and dealers in hair and others for crimping or waving the hair.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the preferred form of our invention with a switch of hair applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a front view of a slightly-different form of the invention.

In the drawings, 1 represents a block, preferably of some hard wood, provided with two parallel series of alternating holes, 2 and 3. This block is adapted to be secured to a table or work-bench, and for that purpose is shown as provided with a lateral extension, 4, which may be integral therewith, as shown in Fig. 1, or a separate piece, as shown in Fig. 2, which extension is slotted at one end, so that it may be slipped onto the edge of the table, and is provided with a clamping-sorew, 5. Into the holes 2 and 3 pegs 6, preferably wooden, are adapted to be inserted, and around and between which the hair a is laid in a waved course, as shown in Fig. 1, in which position it is allowed to remain until the desired crimp A has been imparted to the hair. WVhile upon the pegs the hair may be treated in any usual or desired manner to set the hairin its crimped condition, or otherwise prepare it for use and the market.

One of the pegs 6, or the block 1, is provided with a pin or hook, 7, over which the loop at the end of the switch of hair is passed to hold it while being laid upon the pegs.

The number of rows of holes in the block and the number of holes in each row may be varied as the condition or kind of work may require. Likewise the number of pegs inserted in the holes 2 and? and their position may be changed in a great variety of ways, that which we have shown in the drawings being a convenient arrangement.

Under some circumstances the pegs 6 might be permanently secured to the block and the hair removed therefrom endwise.

\Vithout limiting ourselves to the precise construction and arrangement of parts shown, we claim 1. A hair-crimping device consisting of the combination of a block and pegs carried thereby and arranged in two alternating parallel rows, substantially as described.

2. A hair-crimping device consisting of a perforated block and removable pegs adapted tobe inserted into the perforations in the block, and around and between which the hair is laid, substantially as set forth.

3. A hair-crimping device consisting of the combination of a block provided with perforations 2 and 3 and adapted to be secured to a table, the alternating pegs 6, and a pin or hook, 7, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

NICOLAS HELMER. CHARLES LOUIS LIETZ. Witnesses:

JOHN BREOHT, OSCAR LANGE. 

